Ovo Group takes on Theresa May’s top energy adviser
Katie Martin joins from The Guardian to oversee news and public affairs
Giles Winn is now set to work for Philip Hammond
Ex-Kensington Council leader Paget-Brown sets up shop
Former Kensington and Chelsea Council leader Nicholas Paget-Brown has set up a consultancy to advise firms on working with local authorities.
Paget-Brown has called the new firm NPB...
Being at Bell Pott is like being a journalist again, says James Chapman
The journalist-turned-Conservative adviser James Chapman has spoken out about his "fun" new job at Bell Pottinger, comparing it to life on Fleet Street.
Bell Pottinger appointed the former...
Watch: PRCA boss Francis Ingham eats the lobbying register
"I’ll have what he’s having," said none of the diners at Shepherd’s restaurant as Francis Ingham got stuck into his first course.
Back in 2015, lobbying registrar Alison White confirmed...
Francis Ingham: Prime predictions from two years of lobbying lunches
In the summer of 2015, we began this series of PAN interviews, each of them conducted at Shepherd’s Restaurant. Two years on, and 22 interviews later, it’d be fair to say that rather a lot has...
Emily Wallace: My message to the new lord of lobbying
Last week we learned that the former chair of the Conservative Party is taking up a role...
John Lehal: Real power once again resides on the backbenches
British politics has moved at an astounding pace since 2015, but the days since the 2017 general election seem to have passed by at a snail’s pace. The inconclusive election result, punctuated on...
Lunch with... Paul Bristow
I caught up with Paul Bristow almost immediately after he’d taken over at the APPC, and just a a little while after the General Election. So, our first topic of conversation was obvious. What did...
Lunch with... Nerys Evans and Cathy Owens
After two years of PAN lunches, it seemed time to mix things up a bit. So my first post general election lunch broke new ground in three respects: it wasn’t in Shepherd’s; it wasn’t in London; and...
Lunch with...Nikki da Costa
Some of my PAN lunches are fun. Some of my PAN lunches are serious. Happily, my lunch with Nikki da Costa was both. She takes things seriously, but she doesn’t take herself too seriously....